Looks like a similar issue is discussed and solved in this thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/161949?replies=6
…except that the thread is dealing with 2.3X and not 2.5 and, in 2.5, the same snippets of code don’t seem to be present, so the workaround in the above thread doesn’t apply.
Can anyone help point me to the pertinent code for this in 2.5?
The short answer is essentially no, you have no real control over the filename used by WordPress. WordPress lowercases the filename and expects it to be that way. It also sanitizes it and renames it if duplicates are found, etc.
But the real question is why do you care what the filename is? WordPress knows the filename and it shows up correctly in the gallery and such. The filename itself is not generally something you should be concerned with.
It’s not a terribly important thing — just me being anal-retentive and wanting to continue using the same name-formatting methodology that I’ve used for years. Selective use of upper-case letters helps me scan through large swaths of photo files a bit faster.
In the end, it’s not a big deal, just wanted to know if I could make one global change to get it done.
The bigger issue for me is the kludginess of the picture upload utility — works great for those who want a gallery-type display, but I like to have all the images displayed inline and interspersed (irregularly) with paragraph-form text. Because my posts can often have a dozen or dozens of photos, there’s just too much clicking around in the WP utility to make it a time-saving proposition for me.
I guess I’ll probably just stick to my semi-manual process, combining manual processing/naming in Photoshop, and then automatic code generation via BreezeBrowser…
The whole file-naming thing is just a final straw sort of thing. Thanks for taking the time to give me a definitive answer. Too bad 2.5 took out customizability that 2.3X apparently had.
I am not sure if this has been answered yet, but I need a solution to this as well.
To me it is VERY important that wordpress doesn’t change my file names because I mostly deal with flash files I create. This means when i try to upload examples I need to upload an html, swf, and Adobe’s AC_RunActiveContent.js. If the swf or the .js file are renamed at all then the html file wont know where to locate them.
Extremely frustrating. Are there any answers out there for this that I am missing?
Don’t upload them using the WordPress uploader then. Use FTP to upload important files like that.
The WordPress media uploader is meant for uploading pieces to your site that will be put into posts. Pictures, files to be downloaded, that sort of thing. It is not meant to upload flash content and other such parts of your site.
If you’re uploading examples for others to download, ZIP them up first.
